Psychotherapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of people using the Reach service.

To provide specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic assessment and intervention services to individuals/ groups/organisations, using a variety of applied psychology models.

To carry a caseload and provide a direct service for complex psychological issues, and on a daily basis may function single-handedly as the qualified Psychologist in the multi-disciplinary team.

To be responsible for formulation and implementation of therapy or treatments based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods of evidence-based efficacy across the full range of care settings. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning assessment, formulation, therapy and treatment plans and to monitor and evaluate progress.

To undertake risk assessment and management of individual service users within an appropriate psychological framework and provide advice for other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, therapy/treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.

To be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring members of team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding care of service users through provision of advice and consultation and dissemination of psychological research and theory. To advise, support and facilitate effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team.

To exercise appropriate judgement on the sharing of confidential information with other professional colleagues and agencies under Vulnerable Adult / Child Protection policies etc

To maintain standards which required for professional registration and to maintain Registration.

To be accountable for own professional actions guided by the relevant Professions standards including the British Psychological Society (BPS) Code of Conduct, Ethics Guidelines for Chartered Psychologists, UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, BCP Code of Conduct.

To provide clinical supervision to other team members.

To assist with training and supporting the delivery of psychosocial interventions for individuals with problematic substance use

To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and / or wider organisational matters need addressing.

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior member of psychological services and line manager.

To be involved, as agreed with the professional lead, in the recruitment of psychological services staff when needed.

Undertake continuing professional development including participating in supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required.

Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures and guidelines both internal and external.

Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise.

To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and inventive.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of
• professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems,
• verbal abuse and the threat of physical aggression.

Desirable

• Some prior experience of supervising and teaching
• Prior experience of working with people using substances
• Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the service user group.

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level of training as practitioner psychologist, as
• accredited by the professional body
• Or
• Post graduate qualification in Psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy or
• systemic therapy Registered as a Practitioner psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Or
• Registered with relevant professional body for example UK Council for
• Psychotherapy (UKCP) or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)

Desirable

• Membership of specialist interest groups relevant to client group

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing) complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
• Evidence of maintaining effective communication when there are barriers to understanding and in circumstances where hostility, manipulation, conflict and antagonism are present.
• Able to exercise professional autonomy and clinical responsibility in the
• multi-disciplinary environment and as a lone worker
• Understand the meaning and signs of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma and respond sensitively and empathically to staff who may be experiencing it.
• Demonstrate self-awareness and an ability to recognise where ones own reactions to adversity and trauma may affect responses to workers and people accessing services.
• Model the message of compassion and kindness through own behaviour to encourage a culture of mutual professional support.

Desirable

• Ability to adapt style and/or assessment and intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex clients/situations. Experience of working with both young people and adult service users and their families

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Humankind Charity

Address

24 High West Street

Weymouth

DT4 8JH

Employer's website

https://humankindcharity.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)